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  • What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris

    What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost...
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    mystery  regency  historical  length-medium
  • A Michaelmas Truce by Mary Kingswood

    A Michaelmas Truce by Mary Kingswood

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Madge Paton has been the mainstay of the Fletcher household for a quarter of a century, and even though her role managing the household and raising the children has been usurped by Harry Fletcher’s new wife, there’s still work to be done for a spinster aunt...
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    regency  m-f  historical  christian  mature couple
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  • Taken to the Grave by Cara Devlin

    Taken to the Grave by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series comes to a thrilling conclusion in the seventh and final book, Taken to the Grave.As Audrey Sinclair reaches the end of her mourning period, she and Hugh Marsden, the Viscount Neatham, are at long last looking toward their future together — and hoping for a respite from the dangerous criminal investigations they’ve found themselves entrenched in...
  • Destiny with a Duke by Alexa Aston

    Destiny with a Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A vicar trying to save his own soul. A widow who yearns for children. A darkness that can only be dispelled with the healing power of love . . .William Finchley carries a secret from childhood which he has never shared with anyone, not even his closest friends. When his brother commits suicide, Finch becomes the new Duke of Sommersby...
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    regency  m-f  victorian  historical  length-medium
  • A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A man dwelling in darkness...Lord Julian Caldicott has come home from the war in ragged health and with a reputation in tatters. All he wants is to recuperate in private without bringing any further scandal on the family’s good name...
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    mystery  regency  historical  war  suspense  length-medium
  • Aurora by D.G. Rampton

    Aurora by D.G. Rampton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    70,000+ readers have already discovered the Regency Goddesses Series. The books, which can be read in any order, are regularly in the U.S. top 20 for Historical Romance and Humor & Satire...
  • A Lesson Learned by Rosie Goodwin

    A Lesson Learned by Rosie Goodwin

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nuneaton, 1850Growing up on a canal boat has meant life for young Saffie Doyle has been hard. Her mother, Olivia, was cast out by her well-to-do family when she fell in love with Saffie's father, a lowly boatman named Reuben. But as the years have passed, Reuben has become a bitter and cruel drunk, forced to work for the local crook, Seth Black, to keep their family afloat...
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    regency  m-f  historical  victorian  length-long
  • An Autumn Courtship by Mary Kingswood

    An Autumn Courtship by Mary Kingswood

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Johnny Fletcher is exactly where he wants to be - a Fellow at Cambridge, with a lifetime of scholarly pursuits in front of him. He’s not allowed to marry, but he has no need for a wife when he has his books for company...
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    regency  m-f  historical  christian
  • What Happens in Piccadilly by Chasity Bowlin

    What Happens in Piccadilly by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's no such thing as just a kiss... Chaos! That is what greets Miss Calliope St. James when she enters the household of her prospective employer, Lord Winn Hamilton, the Earl of Montgomery. The newly appointed guardian for his nieces and nephew, he's clearly a man who has no idea what to do with children..
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    regency  m-f  victorian  historical  length-short
  • The Mystery of Mr Daventry by Adele Clee

    The Mystery of Mr Daventry by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Read the next thrilling adventure in the Scandalous Sons series.  How long can one keep up a charade? A gentleman who hides many secrets. Society thinks it has the measure of Lucius Daventry, illegitimate son of the Duke of Melverley, but they know nothing of the dangerous man who lies beneath the constructed façade...
  • The Duke's Magnificent Obsession by Chasity Bowlin

    The Duke's Magnificent Obsession by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    If there is one thing I know, kisses have a tendency to alter things irrevocably.Abandoned at the family’s country estate by her employer, Minerva Stone realizes that the concerns harbored about her position with Mrs. Charlotte Entwhistle-Graves were well founded...
  • Where Shadows Dance by C.S. Harris

    Where Shadows Dance by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The “rich period detail [and] riveting action”* C.S. Harris delivers in her Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series reaches new heights as the aristocratic sleuth navigates dangerous political waters to bring a murderer to justice…   Regency London: July 1812.  How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? That’s the challenge confronting C.S...
  • No Life for a Lady by Adele Clee

    No Life for a Lady by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After almost a year spent playing chaperone to Mr Daventry’s female enquiry agents, Miss Trimble knows she must find a new position. All his agents are married, and so what other reason could he have for calling her to his office late at night? Except her employer is a master matchmaker, a man who has discovered her true identity, knows her real name and her darkest secret...
  • The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal

    The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherited a centuries-old English estate—and a title to go with it. Raw with grief and reeling from the knowledge that her reserved mother hid something so momentous, Olivia leaves San Francisco and crosses the pond to unravel the mystery of a lifetime...
  • Portrait of the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Portrait of the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A fun-loving man who has become a staid duke . . .An independent lady who wishes to pursue her artistic bent . . .A long-ago meeting which left a lasting impression on them both . . .Daniel Judson, the Duke of Westfield, changed from a carefree young rogue into a sober duke once faced with a mountain of responsibilities after he assumed his grandfather’s title...
  • Investigating the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Investigating the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A serious clergyman whose brothers die, leaving him an unexpected duke . . .A woman who is making her way as a Bow Street runner . . .An investigation that leads them to the truth—and each other . . .Jasper Lincoln is happy tending to his congregation when news arrives of his brother’s death in battle. Jasper’s father, ailing for several months, slips away, unable to bear the news...
  • Irresistible by Darcy Burke

    Irresistible by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jessamine Goodfellow has spent six Seasons avoiding the parson’s trap, and spinsterhood is finally within her grasp. A brilliant scholar, she longs for adventure and new experiences, things her family frowns upon. Presented with the opportunity to use her puzzle-solving talent on a secret mission for the Foreign Office, Jess eagerly accepts...
  • Fashioning the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Fashioning the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eight titled peers who never expected to become dukes do just that—and are attracted to females whom Polite Society does not believe worthy of the title duchess, due to their desires to be more than typical ladies of the ton...
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    regency  m-f  historical  victorian  length-medium
  • Nature of the Crime by Cara Devlin

    Nature of the Crime by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series continues in January 2024 with the sixth Audrey Sinclair and Hugh Marsden investigation...When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey’s packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer...
  • Watching the Detectives by Julie Mulhern

    Watching the Detectives by Julie Mulhern

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse. Too bad she finds Mrs. White in the study killed with a revolver. Things go from bad to worse when she finds Mr. White in the dining room killed with a candlestick...
  • Polishing the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Polishing the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A haberdashery owner who suddenly discovers he’s a duke . . .A woman of the ton stained by scandal . . .A deathbed request which brings this pair together . . . Haberdasher Pierce Selkirk always knew he was the son of an earl. Much to his surprise, he learns he is not illegitimate as he had been led to believe...
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    regency  m-f  historical  victorian  length-medium
  • Designs on the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Designs on the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A twin back from war, his brother dying in his arms . . .A woman who has traveled the world and learned from those travels . . .Two people who don’t fit into the constricting rules of London’s Polite Society . . .Major Elijah Young never met his father, the Duke of Bradford, who believed his young wife betrayed him and gave birth to twins sired by another man...
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    regency  m-f  victorian  historical  length-short
  • Masquerade in London by Emily L. Finch

    Masquerade in London by Emily L. Finch

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Suspected of murder, Samantha Kingston leaves behind the world she knows when she flees to the streets of London to discover the truth in this, the first book in a new historical mystery series.London, 1861. Samantha Kingston has lived under the control of her overbearing uncle since the death of her parents six years ago...
  • Murder in St. Giles by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Murder in St. Giles by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    London, 1819: When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what’s more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested for the crime. This is made difficult because Donata's late husband’s odious cousin has materialized to try to wrest her son into his care...
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    mystery  regency  historical  length-medium
  • Vacancy: Viscount Preferred by Tammy Andresen

    Vacancy: Viscount Preferred by Tammy Andresen

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Lady Priscilla is in trouble…When a cousin she didn’t even know existed inherits her father’s title, the new Earl of Purlington wants more than just the earldom, he want’s Priscilla too. Or at least, her dowry. What she needs is a hero. A man to swoop in and save her despite her cousin’s intimidating lurking...
  • Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Chasity Bowlin

    Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “It’s all a bit sleight of hand, isn’t it? This business of seduction.” Faced with the devastating and impending loss of her stepfather and the all too real threat of unscrupulous relatives who would have her inheritance at any cost, Miss Margaret Upshaw flees to London. Her stepfather has tasked her to make her way to the Lyon’s Den to seek the assistance of Mrs...
  • What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

    What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The latest request for help from Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin--from the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less--is undeniably intriguing: The bodies of two men have been found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly Archbishop's favored but controversial successor...
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    regency  mystery  m-f  historical  suspense  length-medium
  • The Gang of St Bride's by Emily Organ

    The Gang of St Bride's by Emily Organ

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    London 1885. A gang of lady thieves is targeting Piccadilly’s wealthy shoppers and no one seems able to stop them. As frustrations build, the body of a young woman is pulled from the River Thames. Reporter Penny Green has a lot to write about, and she faces a new challenge when a stranger approaches her with a riddle...
  • A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson

    A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    London 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.She's an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in, ahem... a very unusual place...
  • Duke of Disrepute by Alexa Aston

    Duke of Disrepute by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Who doesn't love a duke? How about five of them? Welcome to bestselling author Alexa Aston's new Regency romance series, the Dukes of Distinction! These five aristocrats all come with nicknames Polite Society has bestowed upon them. Renown. Charm. Disrepute. Arrogance. Honor. A beautiful widow at the mercy of selfish relatives...A duke broken by a terrible secret..
  • One Night to Remember by Erica Ridley

    One Night to Remember by Erica Ridley

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Meet the unforgettable men of London's most notorious tavern, The Wicked Duke...
  • Temptations of a Duke's Daughter by Samantha Holt

    Temptations of a Duke's Daughter by Samantha Holt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Solving a murder is dangerous business. So is falling in love…Lady Chastity Fallon will not stand idly by while her sister is suspected of murder. Since no one wants to help, she’ll take matters into her own hands. The plan? Simple. She’ll disguise herself as a servant and investigate...
    Categorized as:
    regency  mystery  historical  length-short
  • A Lark's Conceit: A Verity Lark Mystery by Lynn Messina

    A Lark's Conceit: A Verity Lark Mystery by Lynn Messina

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Verity Lark is in a new flap!Bedeviled by Colson Hardwicke’s treatment—summarily dumping her via tersely worded message!—Verity Lark is lying awake in her bed seething over his behavior when she hears a floorboard creak. Immediately alert to the presence of a late-night intruder, she deftly thwarts the attack. Taking her would-be kidnapper captive is easy...
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    mystery  regency  historical
  • Miss Devoted by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Devoted by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Psyche Fremont has known two constants in life: Her passion for her art, and society’s determination to ignore her talent. She isn’t looking for anything other than a handsome model when she crosses paths with Michael Delancey, and he’s only interested in making a few discreet coins lounging about in the altogether...
  • One Night of Passion by Erica Ridley

    One Night of Passion by Erica Ridley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Meet the unforgettable men of London's most notorious tavern, The Wicked Duke. Seductively handsome, with charm and wit to spare, one night with these rakes and rogues will never be enough… Lifelong romantic Thaddeus Middleton is on the hunt for a wife. He hopes to find a woman more attracted to him than to money...
  • The Devereaux Affair by Adele Clee

    The Devereaux Affair by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two lonely children form a bond.As the daughter of a famed courtesan, Julianna de Lacy had seen more than her share of heartbreak. As a child, her own heart was broken the night her mother dragged her from the Marquess Devereaux’s mansion and forced her into a stranger’s carriage...
  • Sleepless in Southampton by Chasity Bowlin

    Sleepless in Southampton by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every touch brings with it a world of temptation. Eventually, there is a point of no return. Miss Sophia Upchurch is not having a good day. Her employer is dead, she’s been robbed, she’s now stranded in a strange city, and the handsome man she’d met on the stage, the man she’d flirted with, is no longer simply Mr. Henry Meredith, a possible suitor...
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    regency  m-f  victorian  historical  length-short
  • More than a Masquerade by Adele Clee

    More than a Masquerade by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An enquiry agent seeking her first case.After spending weeks eagerly awaiting an assignment, Rachel Gambit is instructed to meet her potential new client at a Vauxhall masquerade. She’s been given a list of instructions: to wear red, to find the mysterious gentleman amongst the crowd, with no clue to his identity...
  • Lethal Remedies by M. Louisa Locke

    Lethal Remedies by M. Louisa Locke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Annie has a problem. She has a beautiful child, a loving husband, a well-run boardinghouse with a supportive circle of friends and family, but she’s feeling restless and unhappy.Dr. Charlotte Brown, the doctor who delivered Annie’s baby, has a different problem...
  • A Dangerous Passion by Chasity Bowlin

    A Dangerous Passion by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He felt as if he’d been born to want the woman before him, as if desiring her was simply his destiny.On a whim, the Hound of Whitehall saved widowed reformer, Honoria Blaylock, from a terrible fate… and in so doing, sealed his own...
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    regency  m-f  historical  victorian  length-medium
  • The Lady's Last Mistake by Cara Devlin

    The Lady's Last Mistake by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling to trust a man again, and determined to remain single, Cassie throws herself into a confidential project—a private home for pregnant, unwed women. Hope House is now her sole purpose...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  regency  m-f  historical  suspense
  • The Lady's Last Mistake: A Bow Street Duchess Romance by Cara Devlin

    The Lady's Last Mistake: A Bow Street Duchess Romance by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling to trust a man again, and determined to remain single, Cassie throws herself into a confidential project—a private home for pregnant, unwed women. Hope House is now her sole purpose...
  • A Killer in the Crystal Palace by Deb Marlowe

    A Killer in the Crystal Palace by Deb Marlowe

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A grand showcase for technology, art, design and . . . murder. London, 1851, and the Great Exhibition is on. A soaring success despite months of dour predictions, it is the event of the year, on front pages and wagging tongues the world over—and Miss Kara Levett is thrilled to be in the middle of it...
  • The Lady Who Loved Him by Christi Caldwell

    The Lady Who Loved Him by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In this passionate, emotional Regency romance by Christi Caldwell, society's most wicked rake meets his match in the clever Lady Chloe Edgerton! And nothing will ever be the same! She doesn’t believe in marriage…. The cruelty of men is something Lady Chloe Edgerton understands. Even in her quest to better her life and forget the past, men always seem determined to control her...
  • Hell in a Hand Basket by Annabelle Anders

    Hell in a Hand Basket by Annabelle Anders

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sophia Babineaux has landed a husband! And a good one at that! Lord Harold, the second son of a duke, is kind, gentle, undemanding. Perhaps a little too undemanding? Because after one chance encounter with skilled rake, Captain Devlin Brooks, it is glaringly obvious that something is missing between Lord Harold and herself… pas-sion… sizzle… well… everything...
    Categorized as:
    regency  m-f  historical  victorian
  • Bridgerton Collection Volume 2 by Julia Quinn

    Bridgerton Collection Volume 2 by Julia Quinn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    An enchanting collection containing books four, five, and six of #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Regency-set Bridgerton novels—Romancing Mister Bridgerton; To Sir Phillip, with Love; and When He Was Wicked—now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix...
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    regency  m-f  historical  open-door  length-epic
  • A Christmas Betrothal by Mary Kingswood

    A Christmas Betrothal by Mary Kingswood

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Michael Plummer has never forgotten the woman he fell passionately in love with a few years ago...
    Categorized as:
    regency  m-f  historical
  • Lady Violet Goes for a Gallop by Grace Burrowes

    Lady Violet Goes for a Gallop by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lady Violet has decided that life in noisy, crowded, busy London is simply not her cup of tea. Her search for a rural property to purchase must be set aside when she learns that Hugh St. Sevier has been accused of murder. Worse, the handsome physician is doing nothing to aid those trying to exonerate him...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  regency  historical  length-medium
  • The Dagger Dance by Elizabeth Bailey

    The Dagger Dance by Elizabeth Bailey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lady Fan returns in another twisty murder case! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.Can Lady Fan unravel another mystery…?1793, EnglandAfter a not-so-relaxing holiday in Tunbridge Wells, Lady Ottilia and Lord Francis Fanshawe have returned to their home with a young orphaned girl, Pertesia ‘Pretty’ Brockhurst...
  • When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ayleswick-on-Teme, England, 1813. Sebastian has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a bottle of laudanum at her side, the village’s inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help...
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